Pursuing the elusive construct of distributed leadership:Is the search over?

Educational Management Administration & Leadership

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 693-718

  Hairon, Salleh ^a   Goh, Jonathan wp ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

distributed leadership; exploratory factor analysis; Rasch analysis; schools

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996177370     PISSN: 17411432     EISSN: 17411440     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1741143214535745     Document Type: Article

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